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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

  • US 20100156830A1
  • Filed: 12/14/2009
  • Published: 06/24/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

  • a touch panel having a contact surface that can come into contact with an operating body and capable of acquiring position information indicating a contact position on the contact surface with the operating body and displaying information;

    a contact state quantity acquisition unit that acquires a contact state quantity indicating a contact state of the touch panel with the operating body;

    a storage unit that stores a start edge value of a specifiable range, which is a set of specifiable values that can be specified by the operating body, and an end edge value of the specifiable range; and

    a display control unit that causes the touch panel to display a slider to specify one of the specifiable values by the operating body as a specified value and the start edge value and the end edge value stored in the storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating the position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with the contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference, updates the start edge value stored in the storage unit with the start edge value of the new specifiable range and also updates the end edge value stored in the storage unit with the end edge value of the new specifiable range, and causes the touch panel to display the start edge value and the end edge value stored in the storage unit.

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